He and other Department of Education (DepEd) officials visited several schools in these provinces last Wednesday to oversee the resumption of classes and see the situation for themselves.

“I told the teachers we don’t have to be strict in covering the syllabus. There are lessons in Pablo for Science, Math, etc. We don’t want to miss that opportunity. We can’t be too stuck in the syllabus and textbooks,” Luistro said.

He also encouraged teachers to be creative in catching up to the syllabus.

“Ninety-nine percent of the schools have reopened but in most of the areas the buildings are not there so we sent in tent classrooms,” Luistro said.

Affected students and teachers have to make do with patched-up and tent classrooms for the rest of the school year while their school’s rehabilitation is underway.

About 50,000 students lost their textbooks and school materials along with their classrooms.

Luistro said they have asked the Department of Budget and Managementfor P1 billion in new funds so they can rebuild 1,100 destroyed classrooms and repair 1,300 others in Davao Oriental, Davao Del Sur, Compostela Valley and Agusan Del Sur.

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“You’ll graduate, Luistro assures storm victims”
Wrong thing to say, Luistro should have assured the kids the facilities will be there IN ORDER they might attempt to graduate- there is no guarantee of graduation.
These kids had text books? Why am I photo copying photo copies of text books for the local poor kids in my area because they don’t have text books? And we never had a storm at all…why?